The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 |
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... becoming , sooner or later , the bio- grapher of the Great Duke " haunted me like a passion . " I even went so far as to open the subject to his Grace during his lifetime ; but the proposal was met with so much of wisdom , mixed with ...
... becoming , sooner or later , the bio- grapher of the Great Duke " haunted me like a passion . " I even went so far as to open the subject to his Grace during his lifetime ; but the proposal was met with so much of wisdom , mixed with ...
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... become a great man , at which he laughed heartily , while she added with naïveté , 66 we should not leave you to go home with the fiddlers now . " " But Gleig and Brialmont give a different account of the young officer at page 9 of ...
... become a great man , at which he laughed heartily , while she added with naïveté , 66 we should not leave you to go home with the fiddlers now . " " But Gleig and Brialmont give a different account of the young officer at page 9 of ...
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... becoming generally popular amongst his immediate companions , was likely enough to disincline him to mix with his fellows as he otherwise might have done , while the habits of reserve and solitude in which he indulged , must have ...
... becoming generally popular amongst his immediate companions , was likely enough to disincline him to mix with his fellows as he otherwise might have done , while the habits of reserve and solitude in which he indulged , must have ...
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... become temporarily quiet , Colonel Wellesley declared himself ready for service elsewhere . He was thereupon appointed by his brother , in an official communication which Mr. Gleig states to have been somewhat ambiguous , ' * to take ...
... become temporarily quiet , Colonel Wellesley declared himself ready for service elsewhere . He was thereupon appointed by his brother , in an official communication which Mr. Gleig states to have been somewhat ambiguous , ' * to take ...
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... my employing some one or two of his Majesty's General Officers now in India . ' ↑ Who had now become Marquess Wellesley . with some losses from the West Indian expedition - he with . The Personal Life of Wellington . 21.
... my employing some one or two of his Majesty's General Officers now in India . ' ↑ Who had now become Marquess Wellesley . with some losses from the West Indian expedition - he with . The Personal Life of Wellington . 21.
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